big oil

If you think blasting toxic chemicals into the same ground that gives us the food we eat and the water we drink, is dangerous, if you think allowing fracking to destroy our farmland, contaminate our groundwater and endanger our health sounds like a bad idea, you're part of a growing movement

The Ecuadorian government's recent launch of a bidding round for 16 new oil blocks in southeastern Ecuador is one of the greatest threats to some of the last remaining tracts of primary forest in the Amazon. The oil blocks, covering nearly 10 million acres of virgin rainforest, are poised to

I have been with Amazon Watch for 5 years now. There's no other group doing the work we are doing to support indigenous communities and indigenous rights in the Amazon basin and challenge those hell bent on destroying this precious resource, upon which we all depend. I know you support our work and

Dear Cause Supporters, Amazon Watch pulled out all the stops to make a powerful and meaningful impact this year – with your help we achieved pivotal victories with our indigenous partners. New precedents for indigenous rights were set in Ecuador, oil companies abandoned efforts to drill in the